Emergency or Not? Peoples’ Climate Vote Polls 1.2 Million
NEW YORK, New York, January 27, 2021 (ENS) – “Urgent climate action has broad support amongst people around the globe, across nationalities, age, gender and education levels,” declared United Nations Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner today as he released the results of the first Peoples’ Climate Vote. With 1.2 million respondents, this is the largest survey of public opinion on climate change ever conducted.
Using a new and unconventional approach to polling, the survey results span 50 countries covering 56 percent of the world’s population. The poll includes over half a million people under the age of 18, a key constituency on climate change that is typically unable to vote yet in regular elections.
The people have spoken
The votes are in from a massive climate change survey that covered 50 countries with over half of the world’s population, with the majority of respondents calling for wide-ranging action to address the climate crisis.
Covering 50 countries with over half of the world’s population, the survey had more than 1.2 million respondents including over half a million people under the age of 18, a key constituency on climate change that is typically unable to vote yet in regular elections. Credit: UNDP
Organised by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and University of Oxford, the Peoples’ Climate Vote was conducted from 7 October to 4 December 2020.
Climate change is real & an emergency: 64% people voted so downtoearth.org.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from downtoearth.org.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A University of Oxford/UNDP initiative, the survey results span 50 countries, which cover more than half of the world’s population.
Forest on the island of Dominica. With 54% support, the conservation of forests was the most popular climate action policy selected by participants in the Peoples’ Climate Vote. It was the world’s largest climate change public poll. Credit: IPS/Alison Kentish
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 27 2021 (IPS) – Between October and December 2020, something was different for people playing popular video games like Words with Friends, Angry Birds and Subway Surfers. Instead of a traditional 30-second ad, gamers across the world were invited to participate in a climate change survey.
28 January 2021
Share
US President Joe Biden yesterday signed executive orders to follow through on his promise to take aggressive action to tackle climate change and build on the executive actions that he took on his first day in office, including re-joining the Paris Agreement and the immediate review of harmful rollbacks of environmental standards under his predecessor Donald Trump. Meanwhile, a UN survey has found that almost two-thirds of people around the world now view climate change as a global emergency. The United States and the world face a profound climate crisis, US President Joe Biden said yesterday (Image: the White House)